Essentials Flashcards
What server form factor occupies the most space?
Tower servers.
What term is used to describe a virtualized operating systems?
Guests.
Which two of the following items are related to HVAC?
Ventilation and Temperature control
How can ESD be reduced?
Ensuring that objects coming into contact with one another have equal charges.
What is the difference between DAS and a SAN?
DAS is local storage, and SAN is network storage.
What benefits do SSDs provide over magnetic hard disks?
Less power consumption.
Quicker file access.
You would like to improve disk I/O performance for data residing on a physical server. In accordance with your organizational policy, a server must remain running even if an operating system disk fails. The server is currently configured with RAID 1 for the operating system and data. What should you configure?
Add disks to the server. Configure RAID 0 and create a file system. Move the existing data to the newly created file system.
What role does a default gateway perform in an IPv4/IPv6 environment?
It is a router that allows traffic into and out of a network.
Roman is the server administrator for an international insurance company. The London office currently has Active Directory domain controller servers configured with IPv6. The Toronto office domain controllers are also configured with IPv6, yet replication over the Internet is failing between Toronto and London. What should Roman do to enable domain controller replication between the two sites?
Configure an IPv6 tunneling solution.
While capturing network traffic, you notice an excessive amount of traffic destined to a particular host on TCP port 25. What is one possible explanation for this?
A mail server is being flooded with spam.
Which of the following demonstrates an advantage of cloud computing?
Virtual machines and storage can be rapidly provisioned.
SLAs provide guaranteed uptime.
Your company’s e-commerce site is experiencing excessive traffic during the holiday shopping season. Being the server specialist, you have been directed to configure the site to improve user response time during peak loads. What should you configure?
Network load balancing.
Industry regulations require multifactor authentication to be used for sensitive server systems. Currently, users authenticate to these systems with a username and password. What should be done to ensure regulatory copliance?
Use PKI certificates to secure authentication further.
What category of precessor is used by mobile devices?
RISC.
You plan to use extra DDR3 memory chips for your server, which currently supports DDR4. What should you consider?
DDR3 chips cannot be plugged into DDR4 sockets.
